/r/xbmc

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XBMC is an award-winning free and open source cross-platform software media player and entertainment hub for HTPCs.

It uses a 10-foot user interface and is designed to be a media player for the living-room, using a remote control as the primary input device.

XBMC can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around.

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XBMC is an award-winning free and open source cross-platform software media player and entertainment hub for HTPCs.

It uses a 10-foot user interface and is designed to be a media player for the living-room, using a remote control as the primary input device.

XBMC can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around.

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This subreddit does not support discussion or links pertaining to gray area or illegal add-ons (such as genesis or icefilms) for Kodi made by 3rd party developers. Any such links or discussion will be removed. For discussion of those add-ons, feel free to visit /r/Addons4Kodi.

/r/xbmc

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I cant find a download for a compatible version of xbmc for macOS mavericks 10.9

I reset my old macbook to mavericks to mess around with it and i want to get xbmc on it, i cant find a download for a compatible version. Help is appreciated, thanks in advance!

5 Comments
2024/08/23
04:10 UTC

0

Xbmc 11.0 for ios

Can someone give me the deb file please? I cant find this version anywhere.

7 Comments
2023/12/31
22:38 UTC

0

Configure Samba and SSH on Ubuntu Linux Server (or any distro)

2 Comments
2023/04/14
15:03 UTC

10

I Desperately need help getting the final xbox media center for my xbox emulator.

As Title reads, I need the Xbox Media Center BIOS File so I can experiment with trainers on Phantom Crash. Please Help?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

0 Comments
2023/03/18
05:39 UTC

1

software filtters for xbmc

hello! I would like to ask something, lately I'm messing with the og xbox, especially with the xbmc-emustation application, I love how it organizes all your emulators, games and skins and even descriptions, but where it leaves a lot to be desired is in the software filters section, Counting on very few, scanline and little more, will anyone know if there is any way to add more? Is that even possible? I would like to put filters like lcd for the gameboy/color/advance, or some dot matrix filter... thank you very much

0 Comments
2023/03/13
08:45 UTC

0

xbmc for xbox

i have an old version of xbmc on my xbox.

any guidance for obtaining the newest build would be appreciated

5 Comments
2022/12/26
00:28 UTC

5

EyeTV Hybrid USB TV Tuner integration with Media Center on Mac OS setup?

Hello, I am currently using my 2010 Mac Mini with macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 as my local media server. Recently, I got an old EyeTV Hybrid Tuner set up on my Mac attached with an antenna and I've been able to watch and record digital satellite TV just fine with the EyeTV 3 application. However, these streams are only accessible locally to view on the Mac and, I want to watch these streams throughout my network instead on other local clients and somehow configure them into my XMBC Media Center/Server setup.

At first, I thought NextPVR would be a suitable software to stream the ATSC channels caught by the USB TV Tuner stick but, it wasn't able to catch the EyeTV device. Other than the EyeTV app, I haven't found anything on the Mac that was able to catch the device and stream the channels caught by the tuner.

Does anyone have an EyeTV Hybrid tuner or a similar ATSC USB TV Tuner integrated in their XMBC setup or any other media server setup? If so, what programs or any other tools did you use to extract MPEGTS streams from a USB TV tuner? Does anyone know how I can somehow access the streams from the tuner outside the EyeTV app and somehow put it into my media server setup? Even with an app like VLC to begin with.

The only solution I can think of is recording TV programs to a directory accessible by my media platform , but I want to figure out ways to stream live from the server. I'm still a bit new to media servers so, any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Also, since the EyeTV app uses AMD ATI Theater T507, are there any other applications that also use that in a way that captures the media and streams from the TV tuner?

2 Comments
2022/11/07
02:11 UTC

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Subtitles

How does one go about turning off subtitles on the XBMCmart box? They’re in another language but I can’t figure out how to turn them off altogether or change them to English. Any help would be great!

0 Comments
2022/09/15
23:41 UTC

5

Autoplay GoMovies

Does anyone know if you can autoplay in GoMovies?

0 Comments
2022/01/06
10:15 UTC

0

Help creating clean NFO files

I'm hoping that you might be able to help me with a question I have about creating NFO files for my media even though it's not for XBMC specifically.

I currently rely on the app (first Plex, now Infuse) internally scraping the needed information to correctly name all the Movies and TV Shows I have. But since I've decided to switch both online storage as well as the app I use for watching stuff, I decided to also improve how I handle the metadata for them, especially since a majority of my media is from different countries. So I've started using tinyMediaManager to start scraping the info and making NFO files.

The issue I've run into is this: It's SO MESSY!!

When I look in the folders for each tv show, it's a mess of a bunch of pictures and info files. If all I care about is the season poster and the data like the episode name plot info etc for the episodes, can I instead have a single NFO file for each season or even better for each show? Is there a way to have the pictures be embedded instead of loose in the folder?

3 Comments
2021/11/16
18:53 UTC

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Why on earth can I not find the alarm clock add-on?

lmao please help this dumbass

3 Comments
2021/11/14
16:28 UTC

2

Replacement for my Apple TV 2

I've been using an Apple TV 2 as my XBMC/Kodi box for years.

At some point support for this was discontinued, so I'm stuck using an old version of the software (v1.4.2), and then more recently the image library/ film & TV catalogue became inaccessible (I'm assuming something like the protocols/database connection/server location changed)

These aren't deal breakers. The little box still accesses my NASs perfectly fine, but the newer codecs are becoming more prevalent, and it either doesn't have the grunt, or simply doesn't have the code to process some of these (x265 is a prime example).

What is a good simple replacement for my Apple TV 2 that I can easily configure as a new Kodi box?

EDIT: I don't use library mode, as the naming structure I've been using for the last 25+ years is incompatible. We simply run directly from the directory structure.

13 Comments
2021/08/01
15:18 UTC

2

Live TV EPG for the UAE

Hey, where can I get the live TV EPG for the UAE in XML or json? Appreciate it!

0 Comments
2021/06/24
00:15 UTC

1

Android TV Suggestions

I am looking for a new android box to use because the one that I currently have struggles to run 4K on Kodi, it always buffers leaving me to use a lower quality 1080p stream even though I have real debrid and it works like a charm on my laptop. if I could find one that will smoothly run 4 K at as many frames as possible with a good amount of ram and that is overall VERY POWERFUL that would be great. Please recommend some of the most powerful and well put together reliable high-quality android TV boxes. Thank you!!!

1 Comment
2021/06/21
03:01 UTC

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Help with //tvshowmatching/regexp

I am trying to load a series with non-standard naming conventions, using //tvshowmatching/regexp

I have made the advancedsettings.xml modification:

...
2020-12-03 00:05:46.109 T:8297  NOTICE: Loaded settings file from special://profile/advancedsettings.xml
2020-12-03 00:05:46.110 T:8297  NOTICE: Contents of special://profile/advancedsettings.xml are...
                                            <advancedsettings version="1.0">
                                              <video>
                                                <excludefromscan>
                                                  <regexp>[-\._ ](extrafanart|sample|trailer|extrathumbs)[-\._ ]</regexp>
                                                </excludefromscan>
                                                <excludefromlisting>
                                                  <regexp>[-._ \\/](extrafanart|sample|trailer|extrathumbs)[-._ \\/]</regexp>
                                                </excludefromlisting>
                                                <!-- Extras: Section Start -->
                                                <excludefromscan action="append">
                                                  <regexp>/extras/</regexp>
                                                  <regexp>[\\/]extras[\\/]</regexp>
                                                </excludefromscan>
                                                <excludetvshowsfromscan action="append">
                                                  <regexp>/extras/</regexp>
                                                  <regexp>[\\/]extras[\\/]</regexp>
                                                </excludetvshowsfromscan>
                                                <!-- Extras: Section End -->
                                                <tvshowmatching action="prepend">
                                                  <regexp>Season[\._ ]([0-9]+)[\\/].+ - ([0-9]+)((?:-[0-9]+)*) - [^\\/]*$</regexp>
                                                </tvshowmatching>
                                              </video>
                                              <imageres>9999</imageres>
                                              <fanartres>9999</fanartres>
                                            </advancedsettings>
2020-12-03 00:05:46.112 T:8297  NOTICE: Default Video Player: VideoPlayer
2020-12-03 00:05:46.112 T:8297  NOTICE: Default Audio Player: paplayer
...

and I am getting:

2020-12-03 00:07:30.003 T:8340   DEBUG: VideoInfoScanner: Could not enumerate file nfs://ip/DataVolume/D/Series/ABCDE FG/ABCDE FG Season 1/ABCDE FG - 1 - Title.avi

(and tons of more)

According to https://regex101.com/r/35zwug/1, my regex should match the expression; however, it's not doing that.

Except re-naming the files (they came like that, and renaming them will actually cause more work), and re-compiling Kodi myself to enable the https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master/xbmc/video/VideoInfoScanner.cpp#L1123 line; what are my options?

Does someone have experience in using this feature he'd like to share?

3 Comments
2021/02/14
18:36 UTC

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How to create smart playlist for this use case?

I want a "lazy sunday morning" playlist that displays one random episode per added TV show.

I've created a "base playlist" for each show limiting it to one random episode and then one "final playlist" to merge them all.

example base playlist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="episodes">
    <name>The Simpsons</name>
    <match>all</match>
    <rule field="tvshow" operator="is">
        <value>The Simpsons</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="rating" operator="greaterthan">
        <value>7</value>
    </rule>
    <limit>1</limit>
    <order direction="ascending">random</order>
</smartplaylist>

final playlist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="episodes">
    <name>Random cartoons</name>
    <match>one</match>
    <rule field="playlist" operator="is">
        <value>The Simpsons</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="playlist" operator="is">
        <value>Family Guy</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="playlist" operator="is">
        <value>American Dad!</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="playlist" operator="is">
        <value>Futurama</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="playlist" operator="is">
        <value>South Park</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="playlist" operator="is">
        <value>Rick and Morty</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="playlist" operator="is">
        <value>One Piece</value>
    </rule>
    <limit>10</limit>
    <order direction="ascending">rating</order>
</smartplaylist>

Unfortunately, the result contains multiple episodes of each show and I don't understand why.

Can anyone help me here? Is there a more sophisticated syntax I can look up in some documentation or are there direct db requests possible within these playlists?

2 Comments
2020/12/15
19:04 UTC

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Kodi: Very strange display power issue.

When Kodi is running, I literally cannot power off my Crenova brand projector.

Whether I press the power button on the device, or on the IR remote doesn't matter. About 5 seconds later, the fan spins back up and the power comes back on.

At first I suspected that HDMI activity was causing it to turn back on. So I installed the "Turn Off" screensaver extension and configured it for Raspberry Pi so that the HDMI signal gets disabled at screensaver time. This problem still occurs even with no active HDMI signal. That is super confusing!

If I exit from Kodi back to desktop, I can then power my projector off again.

All I want to do is keep Kodi running and some events like mouse move or remote control turns my screen back on again.

Been trying to debug this for hours this evening without success. It's cold here in western NY but I'm sitting here sweating my ass off from the lamp haha.

Oh, and I have a last-ditch plan here which is an actual HVAC to 3v3 relay module that I happen to have handy, and could control by the RPi. Except that's really lame and makes an annoying click noise. There must be some software fix here.

Any help is really really appreciated. I'm so close!

Edit: oh I should have mentioned, Leia 18.8 brand new installation.

1 Comment
2020/10/24
06:26 UTC

6

kodi vs plex

so im wondering what would be better for sharing alot of movies and shows and music? i have a roku and firestick and also pc but i wanna know what the best route to go plex or kodi

11 Comments
2020/07/21
22:15 UTC

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Dolby (& DRM) in chromium

If I install Chromium on my Zotac ID34 (atom525 with ion GPU)

Will I always still be able to get Dolby(audio) trough Kodi? I can imagine it is running trough chromium which is not specifically build for 5.1 situations.

Thanks in advance!

P.s. bonus points if you know if you also know if chromium supports Netflix Dolby and 1080p

2 Comments
2020/05/31
22:20 UTC

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How can you increase the Screenshot Limit on the Windows build?

My Screenshot folder is CONSTANTLY filling up to its factory limit of 1000 screenshots, and not only do I have to constantly move them, I can't take any more until I do. WHERE can I change the setting (in the already-compiled Windows build) to increase the limit of screenshots, or just eliminate that limit altogether?

3 Comments
2020/05/29
04:34 UTC

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